Storage capacity problems

[Aleksandar_Mace]

Hi,

I had just seen, that after installing Win2K3(two hard disk 20GB and 200GB) on my host, the free space is not correct. I have 809 GB on my host but after instaling Win2K3 i have only 138B free space. i mean 809GB-220GB not equals to 135GB.

I had restarted the ESX host, but there were no changes.

Here is a picture of the storage details.

Thank you

[java_cat33]

Wow you've been ripped off huh?

Does the value change if you refresh your storage? There's nothing else listed within the datastore if you browse it?

If not..... try restarting the following service...

service mgmt-vmware restart

See if that makes any difference.

[shamim-a]

Confirm the size difference from Service Console also.

Use vdf -h command.

If you can see the diff in SC, it may be because of open files.

use the command

lsof (list open files)

to see currently opened files. check for a file with arge size. size will be in bytes.

once you get the file, note the PID and kill it, by using

kill -9

Shamim

[Aleksandar_Mace]

I had refreshed the storage's, the values are the same.

But now i think i know where is the problem.

I was making some tests by adding different hard disk to my virtual machine, but i was removing them, so i guess some copies had "survived" )

I have seen them now, so i think i will delete them-i hope the right ones )

thx

[java_cat33]

When you remove a disk from a VM there are two options - one is to remove the disk (it's removed from the VM, however the disk is not deleted), the second is to completely destroy the disk.